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Old 15-03-2005, 08:14 PM in reply to workkey's post "Pakistan vs India 2nd test Kolkata ..."
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Hey, you beat me to start a thread for the series, I was in the process of rechecking my preview, was giving it a spell-gram check

Anyway, I think you've picked a very good side, one very close to the one I would have picked, I'd probably stick with Taufeeq Umar for the opening slot though

I'm expecting Younis Khan to perform, will not look nice if we have to drop our vice captain (he had a shocker in Mohali where he almost bagged a pair and also dropped a few catches) if he does any of that buisness again I'd not be very happy, and that vice captaincy of his will not prevent me from considering dropping him , what was most disapointing about his performance (more then the actual performance on paper) was the attitude he seem to have (laughing and smiling away rather casually ironically even after miss fielding and dropping catches) I hope he is not taking his role in the side for granted, if he is then he is in need of some serious pep talk from Inzi and Woolmer

Mohammad Sami also needs to diliver, those no balls must come to an end, and forget the bad luck and dropped catches, some how he needs to find a way to get wickets, otherwise things might start looking bleak for him ahead

Finally our fielding MUST improve, we haven't got the best bowling attack in the world, far from it, we won't get opportunities to dismiss some of the best batting talents of the world every other over, so when the chances do arrive we must accept them, the task of taking 20 wickets with such an inexperienced bowling attack is difficult as it is, and dropped catches do not make it easy. WE MUST IMPROVE (Can't stress on that enough)

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